Wouter’s twitter X-peri(ments/ences)
Data Science and Biostatistics department lunch talk
University Medical Center Utrecht
2024-03-12
Why (I) use X?
- learn
- papers
- events (AAAI 2019)
- discussions of (/ with?) famous researchers
- connect
- advertise work
Why not use X?
- twitter is dead, and X is dying
- distractions
- politics
X compared to
- linkedin: fake interactions
- twitter: too real interactions
- mastodon: too hacky / nerdy?
- threads: twitter clone by meta (facebook)
- bluesky: way to go?
Twitter history and status
- joined: Jan 2014
- 500-ish followers (Maarten has approx. 41400)
- 500-ish following (this determines your timeline)
- 15-minutes a day but waning
first ad for own paper on causal ML
first joke (kind-of success)
Use X for
- learning
- connecting
- advertising:
- new work
- vacancies
I may leave X
not sure where to go